Núria Armengol Urpí

Hi! I am Núria. I recently completed my PhD at ETH Zurich in the Computational Robotics Lab, co-supervised by Prof. Stelian Coros at ETH and Prof. Georg Martius from the Autonomous Learning Group at the University of Tübingen. My PhD was partially funded by the CLS doctoral fellowship. Before that, I earned my MSc in Robotics, Systems and Control from ETH Zurich, completing my Master’s thesis in the LAS group supervised by Prof. Andreas Krause.

My research focuses on sample-efficient sequential decision-making for robotics. I aim to develop algorithms that leverage diverse inductive biases to empower agents to efficiently explore new environments and autonomously navigate the real world. My recent work centers on zero-shot RL, specifically on active exploration for learning behavior foundation models from online data in the most sample-efficient way.

In my free time, I love playing sports, reading, and playing music.